DANZA DELLE ORE
Created on 28/10/2002Latest update on 05/01/2012
Artist: Amilcare Ponchielli
Author: Amilcare Ponchielli
Year: 1876
Italian composer (1834-1886), pupil of Puccini. Died just a little too early for the recording age. From his opera La Gioconda (Third Act), first staged at the Scala in Milan with Franco Faccio conducting.
Covers:
- 1903:
Columbia Band [as La Gioconda/Dance Of Hours]
- 1905:
Arthur Pryor [as Dance Of The Hours]
- 1914:
Victor Herbert [idem]
- 1938:
Larry Clinton [idem; vocal by Bea Wain]
- 1940:
Leopold Stokowski [idem; in Disney film Fantasia]
- 1949:
Spike Jones [idem]
- 1952:
Antonino Votto [opera version in Torino, with Maria Callas as La Gioconda (her debut)]
- 1952:
Andrews Sisters [as Idle Chatter]
- 1961:
Nancy Sinatra [as Like I Do]
- 1962:
Maureen Evans [idem; n°3 UK]
- 1963:
Allan Sherman [as Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah - A Letter From Camp]
- 1964:
Rijk De Gooyer [as Brief Uit La Courtine and later as sequel Beste Kerel, Hier Is Vader]
- 1965:
Cornelis Vreeswijk [in Swedish as Brev Fran Kolonien]
- 1966:
Perrey-Kingsley [in Countdown At 6 on The In Sound From Way Out]
- 1981:
Bruno Bartoletti [opera version in London with the National Philharmonic Orchestra and with Montserrat Caballé as La Gioconda]
- 1997:
Helmut Lotti [as Back In Time (Tanz der Stunden)]
- 2003:
Brave Combo [as Dance Of The Hours]
During a party in the palace of a Venetian lord, 24 dancers represent the daily hours. Linda Scott's I've Told Every Little Star ('61) comes from another part of this same opera.
